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Marina, we love you out here!!!

I hope you don’t mind, but I am using your videos to enrich the vocabulary of my two daughters, aged 12 and 14. It is also a way to introduce them to the source materials, vis-a-vis: dictionaries, thesaurus, and other basic research tools.

Not only are these clips educational, but they are funny and highly entertaining. You make the study of words, their origins, and history fun and highly involving, whether its for Daddy or the girls!! They look up to you, and I am personally grateful for that.

All that, and you are genuinely in the pantheon of the world’s most beautiful women [not meant to be cloying]. You are taking the negative connotation out of being an intelligent woman, and I very much want my girls to learn that lesson in life. A genius-level mind and as breathtakingly beautiful as Helen-of-Troy. Now that’s what I call a Femme-fatale!

Please keep teaching in this manner, Marina. You are reaching more people’s minds and improving their lives than you can possibly imagine.

Sincerely, and in admiration always,
Stephen

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“Whyfor” all the creepy-stalker-sounding stuff in this post, “seesixcm6″?

Was it your intention to be humorous?
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Hi, “bsomebody”!
The “A Passionate Liberal” page was an attempt to begin a blog that I have since abandoned. I apologize if this has caused any confusion or consternation for you, and welcome your request to get to know me better.

If you stick to the classical definition of a “Liberal”, that is me; it precludes any ability to pigeonhole me [or you, by the way]. I personally choose the definition [linked here: http://www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_liberals.html] advanced by Bertrand Russell:

“The essence of the Liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.”

As a matter of course, I have requested you as a friend on YouTube. From that, and from here, I would be more than pleased to engage you in whatever conversation you might care to carry on.

Nice to meet you, and I see that you’re a History Teacher in North Carolina. I’m glad to know that at least somebody who seems to understand civility is teaching history to young Americans!

cuL8r?

Stephen
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Marina,
On your webpage, http://www.hotforwords.com/wordrequest/, you say to please come here and post word requests thusly:

“Be sure to put the word or phrase within these brackets [polemic ] like this:

I would like to request the word [polemic] or

the phrase [He responded to the insult and perceived personal slight with a very harsh polemic.].”

Oh, and “Can’t we all just dispense with the polemics and get along?”

stephenburnett
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I DID say what was on my mind, guys.
While my assumption of neo-con philosophy from “seesixcm6″ was apparently in error [according to him], I stand by my original point: HotForWords.com is apolitical, as is it’s creator and hostess, Marina Orlova — at least as far as the content of her weblog/vlog posts are concerned. Her appearances on other media outlets are many and varied and exhibit NO political posturing — even on Bill O’Reilly [who certainly DOES posit the neo-con perspective].

BTW, one need not be a neo-con in order to be intolerant or bigoted. It helps, but it is by no means a prerequisite.

BTW2, “seesixcm6″, according to Merriam Webster’s online dictionary, “polemic” [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/polemic] is defined thusly:

“polemic
2 entries found.

1. polemic
2. polemical

Main Entry:
po·lem·ic Listen to the pronunciation of polemic
Pronunciation:
pə-ˈle-mik
Function:
noun
Etymology:
French polémique, from Middle French, from polemique controversial, from Greek polemikos warlike, hostile, from polemos war; perhaps akin to Greek pelemizein to shake, Old English ealfelo baleful
Date:
1638

1 a: an aggressive attack on or refutation of the opinions or principles of another b: the art or practice of disputation or controversy —usually used in plural but singular or plural in construction2: an aggressive controversialist : disputant
— po·lem·i·cist Listen to the pronunciation of polemicist -ˈle-mə-sist noun”

When I used the word “polemic”, I was referring to your previous quote:

“Your intelligence is probably insulted by inclusion on a list associated with Ariane Huffington, who ran an idiotic and stupid campaign for Governor in 2002. Huffington’s stunts included trying to horn in on a Schwarzenegger event, and knocking down the podium in her rush to appear. The idiotic look on Huffington’s face told the voters how dumb she was, then.”

In that context, I stand by that usage and suggest that if you are that upset about it that we take it up with Marina! She’s way brighter and all of us put together!!!

Finally, “Can’t we all just get along?”

Stephen Burnett
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Note to “seesixcm6″:
Why do all of you neo-con-types feel that your parochial school-boy politics are somehow part of the syllabus here or anywhere else you may roam and troll?

Nowhere in any of Marina’s many posts have I seen her inject personal or partisan politics into her ongoing truly educational work. In fact, Marina is careful to speak and appear on a wide diversity of different media programming and websites, without EVER revealing her personal or political views. Marina is the very model of civil decorum, “seesixcm6″, and your remarks here are the antithesis.

Please refrain from this kind of polemic in your future posts here. Save it for the neo-con political blogs where a lack of civil discourse is the rule rather than here and other places where non-political education is the goal!

Stephen Burnett